![CHIMES FROM A JESTER'S BELLS [inscribed by Burdette]. Robert J. Burdette.](/pictures/thumb/5115.jpg?v=1507051273)
[inscribed by the author] Part I. The Story of Rollo. Part II. Stories and Sketches. With Illustrations by Louis Braunhold. Cover Design by Robert J. Burdette, Jr. Indianapolis and Kansas City: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1897. 6 pp undated ads. Original red cloth decorated in black, white and gilt. First Edition... More
[1 of 30 signed copies] London: Thirty Copies, numbered and signed by the Author, privately printed by Strangeways and Sons, January 1924. Original light brown wrappers, with glassine dust jacket. First Edition, being one of 30 copies numbered and signed by Conrad, this being No 13. Conrad wrote this as... More
![LAUGHING ANNE [1/200 copies signed]. Joseph Conrad.](/pictures/thumb/13104.jpg?v=1507051286)
[1 of 200 signed copies] A Play. London: [Morland Press,] 1923. Original full limp vellum, in the original green cloth box with spine label. First Edition, being one of 200 copies numbered and signed by Conrad (this being #177) -- issued as the fourth title in the Morland Press's "The... More
Two Plays. Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. Original navy blue cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition, published the year after Conrad's death. The volume is in near-fine condition (the spine lettering does not stand out, but that is because it is in green on navy blue).~This copy... More
![NOTES ON MY BOOKS [1/250 signed]. Joseph Conrad.](/pictures/thumb/13482.jpg?v=1507051289)
London: William Heinemann, 1921. Original grey boards with Japan vellum spine with printed label. First English Edition, being one of 250 numbered copies signed by Conrad -- this being copy #171. This was actually printed in America: Doubleday Page produced 500 copies, sending half of them to Heinemann for this... More
[inscribed by Conrad's wife] Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Original blue cloth. Printer's advance mock-up copy of the first trade edition. The binding is the standard one for this American edition, but inside, the contents consist of the preliminary leaves through page 4 of the text --... More
![THE SECRET AGENT. A Drama in Three Acts [1/1000 copies signed]. Joseph Conrad.](/pictures/thumb/13073.jpg?v=1507051285)
London: Privately Printed for Subscribers only by T. Werner Laurie, 1923. Original parchment-backed boards with spine label, with dust jacket. First Published Edition, which is to say the Limited Edition -- being one of 1000 numbered copies signed by Conrad (this being #475). This was Conrad's dramatization of his 1907... More
![A SET OF SIX [inscribed by Conrad]. Joseph Conrad.](/pictures/thumb/12667.jpg?v=1507051283)
[inscribed to Llewelyn Davies] Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915. Original dark blue cloth. First American Edition of this collection of six short stories. The English edition had been published in 1908, and in the same year one of the stories, "The Duel," was published alone by McClure... More
![THE SHADOW-LINE [inscribed by Conrad]. Joseph Conrad.](/pictures/thumb/12657.jpg?v=1507051282)
[inscribed to Arthur Symons] A Confession. London & Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons, (1917). 18 pp undated ads. Original light grey-green cloth decorated in brown. First Edition, first issue (so stated), of Conrad's third autobiographical (though fictionalized) work -- "a Far-Eastern story of a haunted ship... No reader of... More
![THE SHADOW-LINE [inscribed by Conrad]. Joseph Conrad.](/pictures/thumb/12671.jpg?v=1507051283)
[inscribed to John Millais] A Confession. London & Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons, (1917). 18 pp undated ads. Original light grey-green cloth decorated in brown. First Edition, first issue (so stated), of Conrad's third autobiographical (though fictionalized) work -- "a Far-Eastern story of a haunted ship... No reader of... More
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Original navy blue cloth decorated in gilt. This is a volume from the "Concord Edition" of Conrad's works, published the year before his death; included is a fold-out map of the world showing all 19 of Conrad's literary voyages. The volume is... More
Two pages, on "Undershaw, Hindhead, Haslemere" stationery. No date, but "Rec'd 10 Mar 1902" is penciled in. The text of the letter reads:~I will call about quarter to 11 on Tuesday morning if that will not be too early. If you should be a little late I can no doubt... More
Two pages, front and back of "Undershaw, Hindhead, Surrey" mourning stationery. No date, but July 1906. The text of this letter (headed by "Private & Confidential") reads:~You may have heard of my great sorrow. My wife passed away this week.~Her illness and death have naturally turned my thoughts from business... More
![Autograph Letter Signed, addressed to "Dear Mr. [Samuel Harden] Church" A. Conan Doyle.](/pictures/thumb/14063.jpg?v=1527789868)
One page, dated by Doyle "Sept 21 / 94" on stationery on which he wrote "Reform Club." The text of this letter reads:~Among the pleasures which I hope for in the New World is that of making your acquaintance. I trust that my way (which depends upon my agent) may... More
![THE CAPTAIN OF THE POLESTAR and Other Tales [signed by Doyle]. A. Conan Doyle.](/pictures/thumb/13932.jpg?v=1509133275)
[inscribed by A. Conan Doyle] Fourth Edition. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1892. 24 pp ads dated "6/92". Original maroon cloth lettered on the spine in silver. "Fourth Edition," which is to say the fourth printing of the first edition, issued with its silver stamping (and a frontispiece plate) as... More
![THE GREAT BOER WAR [inscribed by Doyle, plus letter]. A. Conan Doyle.](/pictures/thumb/14016.jpg?v=1519760215)
[inscribed plus autograph letter] Revised and Enlarged Edition. New York: McClure, Phillips & Company, 1902. Original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt. "Revised and Enlarged Edition," which consisted of only 1,005 copies. This was Doyle's first volume of non-fiction: the outbreak of war occupied Doyle's mind so utterly that he... More
![THE WANDERINGS OF A SPIRITUALIST [inscribed plus three letters]. A. Conan Doyle.](/pictures/thumb/13970.jpg?v=1516644143)
[FOUR signatures of A. Conan Doyl] Illustrated. New York: George H. Doran Company, n.d. [1921]. Original green cloth. First American Edition, issued in the same month as the English edition, and consisting of only 1500 copies. This is Doyle's account of his 1920-1921 missionary tour of Australia and New Zealand... More
![YOUNG OFEG'S DITTIES [signed by the author]. George Egerton.](/pictures/thumb/13388.jpg?v=1507051288)
[signed by "George Egerton"] By Ola Hansson. Translated from the Swedish by George Egerton. London: John Lane / Boston: Roberts Bros., 1895. 16 pp ads dated 1895. Original blind-stamped red cloth. First Edition in English, translated by "George Egerton" (pseudonym of Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright). This book is often collected... More
![RELIGIOUS DRAMA: Mediaeval and Modern [1/300 copies signed]. Eliot, homas, tearns.](/pictures/thumb/10066.jpg?v=1516644143)
[1 of 300 signed copies] New York: House of Books, 1954. Original maroon cloth, with glassine wrapper. First Edition, being one of of 300 copies numbered and signed by T. S. Eliot (this being #160); there were also 26 lettered copies for presentation. The book was not published in England... More
![IDYLL IN THE DESERT [1/400 copies, signed]. William Faulkner.](/pictures/thumb/13186.jpg?v=1507051287)
New York: Random House, 1931. Original marbled red paper-covered boards with front cover label. First Edition, this being copy #265 of the 400 numbered copies SIGNED by Faulkner. A man goes up into the mountains of Arizona to try to recover from lung disease; a woman leaves her husband and... More
![WANTED - A MATCHMAKER [inscribed by Ford]. Paul Leicester Ford.](/pictures/thumb/9961.jpg?v=1507051275)
[inscribed by the author] With Illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy. Decorations by Margaret Armstrong. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1900. Original green cloth decorated in dark green, light green, red and white. First Edition of this tale by Paul Leicester Ford, published two years before he was murdered by... More
[boldy inscribed by Galsworthy] By John Sinjohn. London: Duckworth & Co., 1898. 2 pp ads dated Easter 1898. Original olive green cloth. First Edition of Galsworthy's first novel (and his second book -- the first, FROM THE FOUR WINDS, having been a collection of stories). As with his first book... More
Three pages (one leaf folded). Plain stationery but with "46 Plymouth Grove [Manchester]" handwritten at the top. Undated except for "Monday Evening." Signed "E.C. Gaskell." After the salutation, this letter reads as follows:~We started in such a hurry on Saturday that we found this morning that we had only looked... More
![Autograph Letter Signed [to novelist George Manville Fenn]. Thomas Hardy.](/pictures/thumb/13000.jpg?v=1507051285)
[an early literary letter] One leaf folded, with Hardy's own address in his hand "Trinity Road, Upper Tooting S.W." Two pages of text, addressed to "My dear Sir," signed "Yours very truly Thomas Hardy," and dated "Sept. 2" [no year but 1880]. The purpose of this early Hardy letter is... More
![Autograph Letter Signed [to novelist Mrs. Humphry Ward]. Thomas Hardy.](/pictures/thumb/13001.jpg?v=1507051285)
[a lengthy literary letter] One leaf folded, on mourning stationery headed "Max Gate, Dorchester." Four pages of text, addressed to "My Dear Mrs Ward," signed "Yours sincerely, Thomas Hardy," and dated 24 March 1905. This long letter is Hardy's response to his receipt, from Mrs. Humphry Ward, of a copy... More
